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Take some time searching around the internet for chess sets, and you will undoubtedly find reference to chess sets made from Golden Rosewood. Sounds good. Rosewood is a great material for chess sets. Adding ‘Golden’ to the name makes it sound even better - a rosewood chess set with a golden brown hue.

Unfortunately, the Golden Rosewood is a misnomer, although a popular one. It seems that through the chess set industry, there has been the unfortunate tendency to bill Sheesham Chess Sets and something that they are not.

Sheesham is a beautiful brown wood that can be turned into ‘black’ chess pieces for a great look. But, it should not be confused as being a rosewood. Sheesham is not Rosewood, not is it related to rosewood.

Golden brown chess sets are beautiful and made to be in any chess players life, but beware of chess sets dubbed “Golded Rosewood”, and understand what you are potentially buying.

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At BraRoe Chess Sets we are very happy to be able to talk about our decision for  the 2008 year to include our customers as part of our charity initiative, Chess Sets for Charity.

 When a customer orders a chess set, or any item for that matter, and the purchase price for the order is $100 or larger, We will give $10 to the charity of the customers choice - with no additional charge for the customer.

 This is something that we are very proud to be doing, to find out more information please go to Chess Sets for Charity.

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